Category: Law Firm Pro Bono

Have you tuned in to the Pro Bono Happy Hour? It’s the Law Firm Pro Bono Project’s podcast that highlights exciting and meaningful developments in the world of law firm pro bono. Each week we interview insightful and entertaining expert guests from Law Firm Pro Bono Project Member Firms and Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge® Signatories, and offer a smart, fresh, creative take on pro bono. We recently spoke with Aileen Bleach of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan*† about the firm’s inspirational new pro bono video. She shares her “behind-the-scenes” perspective and discusses why the firm decided to make a video,

With the Tony Awards on Sunday night fast approaching, our initial answers are borrowed liberally from the lyrics of Rent: Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes? In daylights? In sunsets? In midnights? In cups of coffee? In inches? In miles? In laughter? In strife? In love? Yes, to all of the above. In part, we measure a law firm pro bono program’s year in hours, attorney participation rates, hours per attorney, pro bono time as a percentage of billable time, pro bono for those of limited means, and charitable giving to legal services organizations. How was 2015? Stay tuned.

Summer associates and the next recruiting season at major law firms will be here before we know it, and many law students around the country are looking to join firms where pro bono is an integral part of the culture. We are honored to be able to promote our Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge® Signatories and their demonstrated commitment to pro bono. As part of these efforts, the Law Firm Pro Bono Project recently distributed its annual Challenge poster to the career services offices of all ABA-accredited law schools. The poster lists every Challenge Signatory, raises the visibility of these

The PBEye was thrilled to see three Law Firm Pro Bono Project Members Firms and Challenge Signatories make Fortune’s list of 50 Best Workplaces for Giving Back: Alston & Bird*†; Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz*†; and Cooley*†. Fortune enlisted the help of Great Place to Work, which surveyed employees at more than 600 companies about the difference they make at work, the meaningfulness of their jobs, and the impact they feel their employer makes in its community. Their evaluations also considered the generosity of each company’s community-oriented programs, relative to its size and revenue. As we have long known,

We were intrigued so see so many attendees at last month’s PBI Annual Conference wearing exercise trackers, and this observation got us thinking: these devices have changed lives. Why? No doubt many people had been walking a lot before they got their trackers, but they probably had no idea what they had accomplished. Now, they cannot let even one day (including one spent sitting in inspiring Conference sessions) go by in which they don’t reach their pre-set goals. We imagine attendees took repeated walks to see the cherry blossoms or even walked around their hotel rooms at night to reach

Here at The PBEye, we’re always on the lookout for innovative and replicable projects that promote access to justice. The D.C. Consortium of Legal Services Providers recently released a report on the personal and systemic challenges facing low-income D.C. residents and their areas of greatest need. The report contains the findings of a nearly three-and-a-half year “Community Listening Project” and aims to inform how legal and social services respond to the experiences of those living in poverty by asking them directly about their lives and attitudes. The study is an exhaustive and qualitative analysis of focus group and survey responses

Don’t miss your chance to schedule a “house call” with the Law Firm Pro Bono Project. We are currently planning our travel schedule for 2016 and early 2017. Make sure your city is one of our destinations. Or, should your travels bring you to Washington, D.C., let us know – we’d be delighted to meet with you at your convenience. House calls are part of our expert and confidential consultative services program. Law Firm Pro Bono Project staff visit law firms and meet with firm and office leaders; pro bono committees; pro bono partners, coordinators, directors, and managers; and others